Over his chief collaborator Jonah Sithole’s mbira-guitar strumming, he vocalises the troubles of the land, nhamodzenyika, borrowing his yodelling vocal techniques from the Shona repertoire.
OF all my records by Zimbabwean musicians, the one I treasure the most is Thomas Mapfumo’s crackly 7-inch single with Kuyaura on side A and Zvanyadza on the flip side. Released in 1979, towards the denouement of the war for African freedom in white-ruled Rhodesia, the song is a template for Mapfumo’s later achievements until…
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OF all my records by Zimbabwean musicians, the one I treasure the most is Thomas Mapfumo s crackly 7-inch single with "Kuyaura" on side A and "Zvanyadza" on the.